Michael Saup is a professor at the department of new media at the ZKM-HfG Karlsruhe. His work was presented at different international events; amongst others at Siggraph, the Gallery of New Art New South Wales, the Venice Biennale and the ZKM’s Multimediale. His collaborators in the project R111 were: Louis Philippe Demers: magnetic robotic modules; Norman Muller: liquid modules; Pino Grzybowsky: sonic modules; Jan Totzek: tactile modules; Julie Méalin: linking modules; Daniel Verhülsdonk: tactile modules; Dominik Rinnhofer: tracking modules; Stefan Preuß: virtual modules; Julia Herzog: texture animations.